Quotes by Lasse Hallstrom - Page 1

I love improvising.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Improvising
Love I Love
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Mixing
Amateur
Professionals
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
My Wife
Needs
Wife
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Abba
Grief
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Cinema
Economy
Global Economy
International
Totally
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Quality
Film
Realistic
Tends
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Diet
Fish Tanks
Fishes
Meat
Fish
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Color
Documentaries
Father
Amateur
Shot
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But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Film
International
Stockholm
Wish
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I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Europe
Swedish
Way
Life Always I Am
Life I Am Way
Deeply
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Character
Escaping
World
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Couple
Highlights
Passion
Sparks
Project
Spark
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[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Ambition
Pretentious
Real
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Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Able
Body
Natural
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Me Body Woman
Standard
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Actors
Ideas
Levels
Contribute
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Darkness
Knows
Notice
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Character
Depiction
Performances
Direction
Performance
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Sentimentality
Thinking
Truthful
Trying
Avoid
Performance
Stepping
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Abba
Video
Apart
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Stuff
Two
Video
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Europe
Style
Trying
Preserve
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Cinematography
Dentist
Father
Passion
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Character
Keys
Plot
Sacrifice
Scripts
Choosing
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Adapting
Comedy
Different Experiences
Sweden
Comedies
Experiences
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Kids
Feelings
Labels
Outcast
Relate
Label
Well-Adjusted
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Choices
Notes
Real
Surprise
Wife
Direction
Real Treat
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Actors
Dialogue
Involving
Levels
Stories
Suggestions
Contributions
Script
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Inspiring
Awkward
Nervous
Wife
Performance
Wonderfully
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Different
First Time
Might
Wife
Work Time Great
Forced
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To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Editing
Ideas
Schedules
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Art
Home
Chaplin
Documentaries
Father
Influence
Shooting
Shot
Biggest Influence
Camera
Discovered
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Morning
House
Location
News
Shipping
Thinking
Remain
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Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Great People
Ideas
Knowing
People
Cast
Material
Wonderful People
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If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.
Lasse Hallstrom / Film Director
Moving
Sides
Strong
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